Golf-club carriers



April 29, 1930. E. c. BOYCE 1,756,902

GOLF CLUB CARRIER Fi led Sept. 13, 1928 lNVENTOR fdwm'd CI Boyce.

L I l ATTORNEYS Patented Apr. 29, 1930 7 UNITED STATES PATENT orrlcr.

This invention relates to golf bags, and more particularly to means adapted to be combined with. or incorporated in golf bags for supporting the clubs in a manner which 6 keeps them inorder so that each club is readily available and avoids liability of damage to the clubs when they are being carried around the golf course or are being transported or stored. The invention is in the nature of an improvement upon the invention disclosed in my application Serial No. 254,669, for Golf bags, filed February 16, 1928.

It is an object of the invention to provide holding means adapted to receive and hold the clubs individually and to hold them against rattling and against rubbing engagement with one another. Y

It is a further object of the invention to provide an attachment rack for the clubs which can be readil applied without tools and without alteration, to bags of various sizes.

Other objects and advantages will hereinafter appear.

In the drawings forming part of this specification: I

Figure 1 is a plan view of a golf bag having a golf club holder embodying features of the present invention applie thereto; v

Figure 2 is a fragmentary, sectional elevation taken through the upper part of the bag of Figure 1; and

Figure 3 is a sectional, detail view taken through the olf club holder.

As seen in igures 1 and 2, a golf bag 1 has a rack 2 secured to a bead 3 at the mouth of the bag by spring metal clips 4. The rack comprises an arcuate spring metal stri or band 5 which is normally of about the s ape and size shown in Figure 1. The clips 4 are secured to this metallic band by rivets 6. U-shaped bracket members 7 extend around the band 5 and are secured to the band by rivets 8. The inwardly reaching arms 9 of the bracket members embrace an arcuate racklike member 10 formed of resilient rubber. Rivets 11 pass through the opposite arms 9 of the brackets and through the member 10 and secure these parts together.

The rubber member 10 is provided with circularopenings 12 for reception of the club shafts, and each of these openings has a flarmg mouth 13 throu 'h which a club shaft may be inserted or withdrawn. The mouth 13 of each opening tapers to a neck through which a club shaft ma be forced only by deformation of the rub r. The fit is snug enough to cause the shaft to be held against accidental dislodgment after it has passed through the neck and entered the opening 12. Insertion and withdrawal of a club may be easil effected, however, by moving the club longitudinally at the same time that it is being pressed through the neck.

Owing to the fact that both the band 5 and the member 10 are of flexible material, the rack 2 may be applied to bags of all average sizes without preliminary adjustment. I it be assumed, for example, that the bag 1, illustrated in the drawings, is a bag of large size, then the rack 2 could be fitted to a bag of less circumference simply by drawing the ends of the rack toward one another. The rack would conform to the mouth of such smaller ba but would extend more nearly the entire 'stance around the circumference of the bag.

The rack is adapted to hold the clubs with i the club heads turned outward, as illustrated by the club 14 of Figures 1 and 2, or with the club heads turned inward, as illustrated by the club 15- of Figure 1. This is a desirable feature, since it enables the club heads to be turned outward for convenient accessibility when playing around the course, but to be turned inward when being transported or at any time when the covering of the clubs with a hood is desired.

While the attachment has been illustrated herein as extending nearly all the way around the mouth of the bag, it will be appreciated, of course, that the invention might be practiced by applying two or more relatively short racks to the bag. Such a construction is sometimes desirable, for example, for segregatin the wooden clubs from the iron clubs. uch short racks can, of course, be arranged in any desired relationship to one another circumferentially of the bag.

While I have illustrated and'described in rack dis ose'd near the mouth of said hag, detail certain preferred form of my invensaid racl i com rising an arcuate member of tion, it is to be understood that changes may resilient non-abrasive material having shaftbe made therein and the invention embodied receiving jaws formed therein for the recepin other structures. I do not, therefore, detion of individual club shafts. 7o sire to limit myself to the specific construc- In testimony whereof I have aflixed my tion illustrated, but intend to cover my insignature to this specification. vention broadly in whatever form its princi- EDWARD C. BOYCE, ple may be utilized.

10 What I claim is: 5

1. A club rack adapted for attachment to golf bags, said rack including a series of nonabrasive, resilient, shaft-receiving jaws and being sufiiciently flexible to conform readily to bags of different sizes, and means for se- 80 cufiing the rack detachably in the mouth of a a 2. A club rack adaptedfor attachment to golf bags, com rising an arcuate member of resilient, non-a rasive material having openings formed therein for reception of the individual club shafts, and means for detachably securing the rack in the mouth of the bag. 25 3. A club rack adapted for attachment to golf bags, comprising a rubber rack member provided with a series of openings for receivmg club shafts, each opening being provided with a neck portion of less width than the Y 30 least diameter of a club shaft, the material adjacent each neck portion being displaceable to increase the width of the neck in response to movement of a club longitudinally as it is pressed through the neck. 35 4. A club rack adapted for attachment to golf bags, comprising an arcuate, metallic band, a rubber block'secured thereto and provided with a series of inwardly facing openings in which the club shafts are received 40 and held, means securing the rubber block to the metallic band, and spring clips secured to the metallic band and adapted to grip the mouth of a bag.

5. A club rack adapted for attachment to 45 golf bags, comprising a rubber block having no a series of inwardly facing club receiving openings therein, a supporting member, means connecting the supporting member to the rubber block between each adjacent pair 5 of openings, and means secured to the supporting member for securing the same in the mouth of a bag.

6. A club rack adapted for attachment to golf bags, comprising a block of yieldable, 55 resilient material having a series of inwardly facing club-receiving openings therein, and means supporting said block between each adjacent pair of openings.

7. A club rack adapted for attachment to i 60 golf bags, comprising a support conformable to the mouths of bags of different sizes, and club holding or gripping jaws formed of yieldable, non-abrasive material carried thereby. 85 8. The combination of a golf bag and a club 

